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by Amina Wadud
Removing the androcentric blinkers that have obscured almost every other 'women in Islam' book published, Wadud breaks the glass ceiling with this thought-provoking introduction to understanding what the Qur'an really has to say about women.
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by Fadwa El Guindi
An insightful analysis of both men's and women's veiling demonstrating the misguided tendency to place value according to colonialist notions of a public/private divide which has been imposed on the Muslim Arab world.
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by Mahnaz Afkhami (Editor), Erika Friedl (Editor)
A collection of papers promoting the participation of Muslim women in public life including the previously male-dominated preserve of Islamic shari'a.
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by Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick (Contributor)
An excellent introduction to Islam for both non-Muslims and Muslims wishing to gain a deeper and broader grasp of their faith that goes beyond the average 'rules and regulations' approach. Murata and Chittick demonstrate an illumined understanding of Islam from the three-fold perspective of islam, iman and ihsan.
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by Mai Yamani (Editor), Andrew Allen (Editor)
A collection of scholarly contributions that address women and their rights in Islam - both the practical reality and theoretical ideals. Review
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by Ahmed Ali
A fresh attempt to render the sublime language of the Qur'an into English. Ali's translation is both sensitive to modernity and gender-inclusiveness whilst still keeping faithful to the spirit of the original message.
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by Carol Tavris
The Mismeasure of Woman argues that women aren't inferior, secondary, better or even different from men. We need to stop comparing women to men at all, Tavris points out, or fall prey to direct and indirect sexism by considering the 'male' as normative. Be prepared to have your paradigm of gender equality changed by this challenging book.
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by Leila Ahmed
In what is sure to become a classic for anyone interested in women and gender issues within Islam, Ahmed's book published in the early 1990's provides an excellent analysis of historical and contemporary patriarchal practices that have contributed towards subjugation of women in the Muslim world, and questions those practices' Islamic authenticity.
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by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Re-visiting old haunts as well as searching out new experiences, Fernea gives us a peak into the lives of Middle-Eastern Muslim women from the perspective of a non-Muslim western academic and feminist. Throughout the book Fernea's own subtle biases spring up, but perhaps unconsciously she demonstrates that despite media prejudice which would have us believe otherwise, Middle Eastern women are not helpless victims of circumstance.
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by Fatima Mernissi, Mary Jo Lakeland (Translator)
Also published (and better described) under the title Women and Islam: An Historical and Theological Enquiry, Mernissi's ground-breaking work challenges the notion that Muslim societies have been faithful to the Prophet's original egalitarian vision of Islam.
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